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Local Dynamical Instabilities in Magnetized, Radiation Pressure Supported Accretion Disks
Omer Blaes, Aristotle Socrates
We present a general linear dispersion relation which describes the coupled behavior of magnetorotational, photon bubble, and convective instabilities in weakly magnetized, differe…
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The Puzzle of the Lyman Continuum Polarization of QSOs
Gregory Shields, E. Agol, Omer Blaes
Recent spectropolarimetry of QSOs has revealed a surprising rise in polarization in the Lyman continuum of several objects. We discuss several recent attempts to interpret this fea…
astro-ph2000★ 66 cited
Keck Mid-Infrared Imaging of the QSO 2237+0305
Eric Agol, Barbara Jones, Omer Blaes
Using the Long Wavelength Spectrometer on Keck I, we have imaged the gravitationally lensed radio quiet quasi-stellar object (QSO) 2237+0305 at 8.9 and 11.7 microns for the first t…